Most underrated prog band? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

The most underrated prog band, in my opinion, is Galahad.

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dr wu23 wrote:

I always thought Happy The Man deserved more notice.

They don;t have any 4 star ratings though I feel the first two deserve that.

I remember when I first got online in the late 90s and started looking up prog and going on the newsgroups HTM were actually talked about very highly and some even called them the greatest US prog band. However, these days they are rarely mentioned especially on this website which is a shame.

Another band that has been even more "lost in the sauce" than Happy the Man are Mastermind. They were for a little while one of the leading US prog bands back in the 90s but then at some point they all but disappeared. Rich Berends now plays a version of his band in South America so technically they live on but they haven't received the credit they deserve in a very long time.

dr wu23 wrote:

I always thought Happy The Man deserved more notice.

They don't have any 4 star ratings though I feel the first two deserve that.

I agree

Morgan

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Rush are underrated. By me.

dr wu23 wrote:

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

dr wu23 wrote:

I always thought Happy The Man deserved more notice.

They don;t have any 4 star ratings though I feel the first two deserve that.

I remember when I first got online in the late 90s and started looking up prog and going on the newsgroups HTM were actually talked about very highly and some even called them the greatest US prog band. However, these days they are rarely mentioned especially on this website which is a shame.

Another band that has been even more "lost in the sauce" than Happy the Man are Mastermind. They were for a little while one of the leading US prog bands back in the 90s but then at some point they all but disappeared. Rich Berends now plays a version of his band in South America so technically they live on but they haven't received the credit they deserve in a very long time.

Which Mastermind do you recommend....?

Volume 2: Brainstorm. I actually need to revisit them myself but that one contains some pretty amazing stuff imo. The first one (volume 1) is good too. They might actually be among the first prog albums to incorporate elements of prog metal without actually being prog metal. Of course there's a big ELP influence too.

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - July 25 2023 at 17:37

Because underrated is not the same as unknown or little known, but that people who know them don't give the band enough merit and/or appreciation, then I might expect that the most underrated band might also be the most overrated band when judging the numbers of people who actively rate them (i.e. judge the quality etc.) period. If one considers Pink Floyd to be Prog, then maybe Pink Floyd. I don't know or really care much actually. From a rather different angle, while I don't much like ELP's music generally (most enjoy the debut), I do recognise it as being very significant to Prog and 70s rock, and I expect that is name that has come up because it seems very unfashionable these days and may not get the respect that many others think the band deserves. One can respect a band without liking it, of course.

Edited by Logan - July 29 2023 at 20:59

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Perhaps underrated albums by major prog artists would be better, suffice to say, I think Oldfield doesn't get talked about enough on here.

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